American Mineralogist; February 2007; v. 92; no. 2-3;
p. 233-234; DOI: 10.2138/am.2007.476
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Preface: Recent developments in microbeam cathodoluminescence with applications to mineralogy
Ian M. Coulson1,*,
Paul R. Edwards2 and
Martin R. Lee3
1 Solid Earth Studies Laboratory, Department of Geology, University of Regina, Regina, Saskatchewan S4S 0A2, Canada
2 SUPA, Department of Physics, University of Strathclyde, 107 Rottenrow, Glasgow G4 0NG, U.K.
3 Department of Geographical and Earth Sciences, University of Glasgow, Lilybank Gardens, Glasgow G12 8QQ, U.K.
Correspondence: * E-mail: ian.coulson@uregina.ca
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This thematic set contains a series of papers arising from a symposium of the same name at the 15th Annual Goldschmidt Conference, held at the University of Moscow, Idaho, in May of 2005. Although luminescence (the ability of materials to emit light upon excitation with various kinds of energy) is a well-established technique in physics and the material sciences, its present widespread use in the geosciences was stimulated forty years ago by the introduction of the technique of cathodoluminescence (CL) to image the internal structure of minerals (Smith and Stenstrom 1965; Long and Agrell 1965). Many minerals exhibit the phenomenon of CL as a result of electron-beam interaction, a trait that can successfully be applied to the study and interpretation of zoning patterns in minerals and/or cementation in rocks (e.g., Mariano 1988). The state of the technique of CL, up to the end of the last millennium, had been laid out in a comprehensive . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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